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Oct 20 2012
Finally There – Under the Darkened Moon Manuscript Phase
Posted by in "Dark Moon", Editing, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process
With FINAL edits done, I am now on to the manuscript compilation phase for Under the Darkened Moon. Ok, so “FINAL” edit is probably a misnomer because compiling the manuscript does entail some minor editing. I’m still looking for errors, but mostly it will consist mostly of formatting.
However, I do read each chapter one, final time. In the process, I am looking for:
- Any remaining sentence structure issues.
- Any places where dialogue might need some clarifation as to who is speaking and adding “so-and-so said” (or equivalent) as needed.
- Needless “had”s, “that”s, and “look”s that were missed in final editing
- Running the text through a Text To Speech engine to listen and see if there are any missing words or awkward sounding items.
Finished chapter 1 last night and things went swimmingly. One sentence corrected. No dialogue problems. No superfelous hads, looks, or thats. And the TTS software read sounded great to me.
Onward and upward!
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